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South London (UK) : Announcing the first ★ SOUTH LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ★

Posted on 2025/07/25 - 2025/07/25 by darknights

South London (UK): announcing the first ★ SOUTH LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ★

Sunday 27^th July 2025
at 56a Infoshop, Crampton Street, SE17 3AE

Starting with an evening discussion: Sat 26^th July, 6:30pm
Discussion and Tables: Sun 27^th, 11am-7pm

More details and updates: slab.noblogs.org and here:

Contact: slab [at] inventati [dot] org

ANTI-POLITICAL ★ INDIVIDUAL REVOLT ★ INFORMAL ORGANISATION ★ ATTACK

London is a disneyland for the world’s dominators. The scientific and economic elites and their armies of technicians rule here unopposed – without having to fight against any idea which could challenge the foundations of this society. For this reason, they are free to use this city as a stable base to plan, launch, and profit from one-sided slaughters which subdue the lands where ‘critical resources’ are to be found, whether in Congo (cobalt), Yemen (Saudi oil fields) or Gaza and the West Bank (water and land).

But London is not spared from the relentless sacrifice of life to the economy. The bosses and their enforcers have us exactly where they want us: our time and life sucked dry in forced pointless activity called work and school, made sick by toxic materials in order to sustain addiction to useless objects. This city of exploitation and control is an endless ‘opportunity’ for anyone with money and power and an upgraded, high-tech hell for the rest of us.

The latest ‘upgrade’ here in south London is the proposal to expand the tube network of hyper-speed exploitation down the Old Kent Road to Lewisham – a dirty deal between TFL and finance capital which is already yielding luxury developments, springing up like a rash. Rent, energy, food-price hikes which sow desperation and abject dependence on charity… The oppression of passing the days in mouldy, pest-ridden, flood-prone, flammable boxes… Limitless police-state controls on the neighbourhoods… These are just a few of the attacks being deployed.

Not everyone wants to accommodate themselves, fit in, bow their heads, conform to all this. And among those who want to fight back, not everyone wants to put their trust in political parties, trade unions, pressure groups, activists, university career-critics, community leaders, official organisations, federations, large social movements.

Some make the choice of individual revolt which can spread. These ideas and acts of rebellion have nothing to say to those in power, but instead speak directly to raging hearts. Each one in struggle to unleash their own freedom, breathing life into a self-organised struggle for the freedom of all.

This is what we want to explore in the South London Anarchist Bookfair – with discussions and publications, delving into ideas which are outside of time, outside of measure and popularity, out of control. We want to share and explore our choices in the struggle against power in all its disguises, here and now.

Greece: Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis: 23/7 Christoforos Marinos, 11/7 Vasos Tsironis, 19/7 Willem Van Spronsen

Posted on 2025/07/25 - 2025/07/25 by darknights

They are waiting for us on the balcony

July 23 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the political assassination of the anarchist comrade Christoforos Marinos by EKAM by government order. The extrajudicial executions of social activists, by government decisions during the current political regime, aimed to secure it in the face of the danger of the emergence of an open subversive movement. The murder of Marinos took place in order to lock in the anarchist movement the political results that the assassination of Michalis Prekas (October 7, 1987) had produced, the internalization of military terrorism and the separation from the subversive struggle.

Comrade Christoforos was by Michalis’ side in his last battle. Preka’s exit to a balcony with the guns held high, the impetuous meeting with the firing squad, instead of negotiating a surrender, constituted a steel political message, a call that would reverberate until the death of the state and capital: the irreversible historical passage to the unyielding revolutionary struggle. As a prisoner, the killers of Marinos’ partner manipulated him to consolidate their terrorist order. His close friends were sold out in tactics. Those who understood what was at stake politically, moved backwards from the passage that was opened with the exit of Kalogreza. The others found an opportunity to cannibalize those targeted by the state in order to bury everything that had a reference to the subversive struggle. Marinos himself revived the passage. When it was kidnapped in Bulgaria, it overthrew the rule of its torturers. It has taken to the streets again on all social fronts. It embraced the younger fighters like no other. It was rearmed. It confronted internalized terrorism and its political products and finally cleared the passage from hypocritical relativisms. Since then, everyone has come to know that the two worlds are irreconcilable: In front of the passage is the revolution that springs up fighting and bleeding. Behind the mockery of rotting culture.

On July 11, 1978, doctor Tsironis was also murdered. On a balcony and this unyielding revolutionary, with a gun in his hand and the people in his heart. These balconies are the door to our home.

The crossing has been kept open until today. Anarchy flourished on the free side of history. But the passage stands there for every now, not for the reminiscence of the fragrance of past flowers. In these three decades the tyrants have departed, the seas and the earth have turned red like fire, the chains have become unbearable, one on top of the other they have shaded the sky. The nation of bosses is at war, more work is needed and the human surplus is in the landfill. The masses wake up, naked they regress back and forth. The predatory opportunists of the left and the right make the nakedness of the masses a new political surplus.

In a neighborhood today, on the platform of the Propylaea and in Paris, London, Berlin tomorrow, the balcony of the doctor, Michalis and Christoforos, they eagerly await the embrace of an armed forest. The screams of history will set the pace along the way. Release the comrades from the balcony guard. They will leave a banner on the railing, written on the foot with their stone patience, a note for the latecomers: “I MOVE AGAIN”.

Willem the Captain

I saw Willem last week among the workers of the United Farmer Workers of America, outside a farm, facing the prison guards of the American colony. He took the place of a brother who was to testify under the boots of ICE. Four days ago, on July 19, on the anniversary of his attack on an immigrant prison in Washington, D.C., he sent me a message. He rigged a ship in Barbaria. He took his Cretan rifle and has set fire to the yachts and the cruises, the five-star shacks and the clubs in the Greek brothel of the imperialists and their Zionist gendarmes. Chapter is the common sun, the water of the dispossessed, the sand of the Athenian desert, the bloody salt of the Mediterranean, the sweat of the workers who are called upon not to raise their heads so as not to be slaughtered like the barbarians of the South. Harmful flows from the looted places invade the brothel. They spoil the harmony of European capitalism in Christ. Yes, Captain! Rules from Gavdos to the North Pole, not to stay swimming from the two-millennial Roman Empire. Let’s bring my bright captain.

Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1637209/

Via & translated by Abolition Media

Berlin, Germany: Update on the legal situation of Rigaer94 EN/DE

Posted on 2025/07/20 - 2025/07/20 by darknights

There hasn’t been a legal update by us in the past 10 months. Now a lot of stuff is happening again and we are not sure how this will all turn out. What we are sure about is that the enemies of the house are continuing their actions in order to destroy the house. We will not stop fighting them. Here is a brief overview of the legal status of the house right now and the changes which have been going on.

What is the current situation?

Since most of the remaining rent contracts were canceled last summer, the vast majority of the flats are right now without those rent contracts. There are just five rent contracts remaining in the whole house. It seems like our enemies are trying to get rid of the rent contracts bit by bit, in order to create a legal base for a complete eviction of the house.

Court cases that happened in the last months (or didn´t)

On September 4th 2024, there should have been an appeal about some of the rent contracts from 1992 in the back house and against the people who were added to these lawsuits, as a result of the raid in October 2021. Before that, the Amtsgericht dismissed those eviction lawsuits against the rent contracts. The court date was postponed because the so-called lawyer of Lafone, Bernau, sent some documents too late to the judges to include them. Since then there has been no new date scheduled for this.You can find a more detailed description here.
The lawyers of Lafone lodged a disciplinary complaint against judges of the 66th chamber of Landgericht II, accusing and suing the judges for allegedly delaying the trials. This disciplinary complaint was declined. We can only laugh at both our enemies fighting each other.
As we published last year, in three proceedings about two apartments in front house as well as one room in the attic of back house, the legitimacy of the letterbox company Lafone was not questioned by the judges anymore. The apartments in front house still did not get eviction orders, though for one of them a person is supposed to pay their alleged ‘rent debts’, about 20.000€. For the room in the attic on the other side, the judges actually seem willing to issue an eviction order. Since we published this information, all those decisions were confirmed by the Kammergericht – therefore, the highest court in Berlin now seems to accept the legitimacy of this letter box company.

Leonid Medved is the “Owner” of Lafone

Part of this change is also that Leonid Medved is now officially listed as owner of Lafone (and therefore R94) on Companys House. He is described as an “individual person with significant control”. It is said that he directly or indirectly holds 75% or more of the shares in the company. (PDF) Medved became registrable as shareholder on 06/04/2016, but the entry note was just published on 25/04/2025. With this first listing in an official document of the company we now have proof of what we have known for a long time.

Info on upcoming eviction court cases

There are a lot of trials regarding our house coming up in September. Besides attempting to get eviction titles for the squatted flats and those who had rent contracts since 1992, Lafone is trying to get rid of the remaining renters of front house by cancelling their rent contracts.

On 17th of September, all of the rented flats of front house will have appeal hearings. The first lawsuits that attempted to cancel those rent contracts were rejected years ago. Aditionally, some of the trials against people who were added to the lawsuits following the raid in October 2021 will happen that day in the same court room. These hearings will happen at Landgericht II.

Also on 17.9., there will be a court case against the Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle. The last eviction lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle was rejected by the Kammergericht. Bernaus appeal against that was declined by the federal supreme court (BGH) in November 2023. In the end of last year, Bernau filed another eviction lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle, starting from scratch.

For all the court cases all the affected parties have to come. That means the accused, but also Lisa Close, the director of Lafone Investments, will be there. Let’s give her a proper welcome!

Call for participation in the court cases

We call for participation in solidarity at the upcoming court cases. The courtcases will be public (bring ID if you want to go inside).

(Wednesday) 10.09.2025 at 13.00. Littenstr 12-17 room 3705 (3rd floor). Lawsuit against the last existing rent contract in backhouse.

(Wednesday) 17.09.2025 at 10.30. Tegeler weg 17-21. room 148 (1st floor). Lawsuit against Kadterschmiede and Keimzelle.

(Wednesday) 17.09.2025 at 13.00. Littenstr 12-17 room 3705(3rd floor). Lawsuit against the rented flats in front house and some other eviction lawsuits.

For more context read our last two texts “Rigaer94: Sommergewitter in meinem Block – “thunder storms on my block” and “Rigaer94: Return of the Phoenicurus. News from a letterbox“

More infos will follow soon.

Rigaer 94 stays!

Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: Update on the legal situation of Rigaer94 EN/DE” →

PDF: Brian Thompson Assassination x Armed Joy

Posted on 2025/07/20 - 2025/07/20 by darknights

Porto Alegre, Brazil: New Counter information site: invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Posted on 2025/07/20 - 2025/07/20 by darknights

EN: Porto Alegre, Brazil: New Counter information site: invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Weekly, and for a few years now, from Porto Alegre (Brazil), the radio program Invasão Sonora Pela Terra Contra o Capital has been transmitted. Acting through orality as a path of anarchist propaganda, we share on air a reading of current events from an anti authoritarian perspective, encouraging and inciting anarchist action, in that sense it is a voice of struggle, subversion and solidarity.

On air on Saturdays at 7:30 pm on Radiocom 104.5 fm in the city of Pelotas, it can also be heard on www.radiocom.org. At 3 pm, also on Saturdays we are played on Web Radio Insubmissa in Natal/Rio Grande do Norte at: www.radioinsubmissa.org. Reverberating on Mondays at 7 pm on the Web Radio Periferia Resiste in: periferiaressite.site.radio.br.

We do not stimulate the lobotomy of internet, online daily life, social networks neither the entire technological sewer that has been systematically sucking the attention, the life, of half of the world, paralyzing and trivializing everything. For us, reality is destroyed and built with our feet in the ground, our hands in the dough and the horizon beyond the screens. In this sense, this site that we are opening is just a way to incite anti-authoritarian practices, to encourage thought and ideas to be transformed into action.

And it is precisely the need of expand the anarchic gaze and action in face of the permanent struggles we need to afford that we insist to continue with this program. Expanding its diffusion, the site invasaosonora.noblogs.org, where the programs are been uploaded weekly, has just been created. programs of 2025 and the last ones of 2024 are already on the site.

For the expansion of anarchic struggle!

invasaosonora.noblogs.org.

PT: Nova página de contra informação invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Semanalmente, e já fazem alguns anos, ecoa a intervenção de rádio Invasão Sonora Pela Terra Contra o Capital, agindo através da oralidade, como canal de propaganda da Anarquia, compartilhando uma leitura dos acontecimentos desde um olhar anti autoritário e fomentando a ação anarquista, é um grito de luta, subversão e solidariedade.

Aos sábados às 19.30 hs vai ao ar na Rádiocom 104.5 fm na cidade de Pelotas podendo ser ouvido também no www.radiocom.org, às 15hs dos sábados toca na Web Rádio Insubmissa de Natal no Rio Grande do Norte em www.radioinsubmissa.org, reverberando ainda nas segundas-feiras às 19 hs na Web Rádio Periferia Resiste em periferiaresiste.site.radio.br.

Não estimulamos a lobotomização da internet, o cotidiano on-line, redes sociais e todo ralo tecnológico que tem sugado sistematicamente a atenção, a vida, de meio mundo, paralisando e banalizando. Para nós a realidade se destrói e constrói com os pés no chão, a mão na massa e o horizonte para além das telas. Nesse sentido, a página que se abre é apenas um meio de incitar práticas antiautoritárias para impulsionar que o pensamento e idéias virem ação.

É precisamente, a necessidade de expandir o olhar e ação anárquica diante das lutas que nos atravessam permanentemente o que impulsiona a continuidade desse programa. Ampliando sua difusão acaba de nascer a página invasaosonora.noblogs.org onde estão sendo subidos os programas semanalmente. Já estão no ar as interveções de 2025 e as últimas de 2024.

Pela expansão da luta anárquica!

invasaosonora.noblogs.org

ES: Porto Alegre, Territorio en conflicto con el estado Brasileño.

Nueva pagina de contra información: invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Semanalmente, y ya hace unos años, desde Porto Alegre (Brasil), sale al aire el programa de radio: Invasão Sonora Pela Terra Contra o Capital.

Actuando a través de la oralidad como canal de propaganda anarquista, compartimos una lectura de los eventos actuales desde una mirada anti autoritaria, fomentando e incitando a la acción anarquista, en ese sentido es un grito de lucha, subversión y solidaridad.

Los sábados a las 19.30 hs en la Rádiocom 104.5 fm en la ciudad de Pelotas pudiendo ser escuchado también en www.radiocom.org. A las 15hs también los sábados toca en la Web Rádio Insubmissa de Natal/Rio Grande do Norte en: www.radioinsubmissa.org. Reverberando aún los lunes a las 19 hs en la Web Radio Periferia Resiste en: periferiaresiste.site.radio.br.

No estimulamos la lobotomía del internet, el cotidiano on-line, redes sociales ni toda la alcantarilla tecnológica que vienen succionando sistemáticamente la atención, la vida, de medio mundo, paralizando y banalizando todo. Para nosotros la realidad se destruye y construye con los pies en la tierra, las manos en la masa y el horizonte más allá de las pantallas. En este sentido, la pagina que se abre es apenas un medio para incitar prácticas anti autoritarias, para impulsar que el pensamiento y las ideias se transformen en acción.

Y es precisamente, la necesidad de expandir la mirada y acción anárquicas delante de las luchas que nos atraviesan permanentemente, lo que nos impulsa para la continuidad de este programa. Ampliando su difusión acaba de nascer la página invasaosonora.noblogs.org Donde están siendo subidos los programas semanalmente. Ya están en el aire los programas de 2025 y los últimos de 2024.

Por la expansión de la lucha anárquica!

invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Greece: Solidarity with anarchist Fotis Tziotzis

Posted on 2025/07/18 - 2025/07/18 by darknights

We stand in solidarity because :

Fotis Tziotzis does not pretend to be innocent. He does not seek excuses, he does not round up his actions. He stands in the dock as what he is: an anarchist who has chosen to confront the world of power, in deed and in word. And he does so without a trace of remorse, without asking for mercy.

He expects no one to save him – he expects the movement to stand up to its words. For he himself did not back down.

And yet, while other anarchist defendants were turned into icons, became posters, banners, hashtags and statements, Fotis was left out. Not because he’s less of a militant, but because he didn’t fit in. He doesn’t sell as much, he doesn’t have “the right style”, he is not easily consumed by a solidarity that often functions as a catwalk of sympathy.

And that, too, is a problem – not his, but ours.

Solidarity is not an emotional gesture. It is a political stance. It doesn’t pick “good” and “bad” anarchists, nor does it work with likes and trending. If we choose who we support based on image rather than substance, then we are already defeated.

Fotis is not asking for forgiveness or sympathy. He declares himself present, consistent, dangerous – and that is what the state charges him with as a crime. To us, it ought to be counted as a virtue. If repression targets those who do not submit, then silence in the face of such cases is complicity.

This text was not written from scratch. It was preceded by questions, corrections, comments, objections. It did not emerge as an “inspiration”, but through the process that produces politics: criticism, assertion, stance. And it is this attitude that we want to deposit here.

Because if on 18 July the state makes a decision about Fotis, what we do is that we judge ourselves. And if we want a movement that is not manageable, that does not get comfortable, then it is time to prove it.

No selective solidarity – all for one, and all together against the state

Consistency should not be paid with silence – but with support

Solidarity is a deed, not raising banners

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Bomb containing 5 sticks of dynamite found outside home of media scum journalist Giannis Pretenteris

Posted on 2025/07/15 - 2025/07/16 by darknights

An explosive device found in the garden of the one-storey home of well known scum journalist personality Giannis Pretenteris, in the suburb of Neo Psychiko, northern Athens. The device consisted of five dynamite sticks and a timer and it was wrapped in a plastic bag. It is assumed that the perpetrators threw the device over the wall, possibly during the night, but for unknown reasons it did not go off. There was no warning and so far no claim.

Giannis Pretenteris is a typical ‘talking head’ journalist of the newspaper ‘To Vima’ and appears mostly on the disgusting spectacle that is MEGA TV news channel as a contributor to discussions of political content. He is no friend of anarchists speaking out against them, slandering them constantly as terrorists and has done his upmost to defend Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ New Democracy right wing governement. The reason he’s a scumbag has been explained in a previous attack by Direct Action Cells.

Athens, Greece: Comrades accused of ‘Conspiracy Vengeance/Armed Response’ case attempt escape from court by taking a cop’s gun

Posted on 2025/07/15 by darknights

As expected, once again, the police-DAEB in collaboration with the corrupt judges did what they know best to do, to “cook”, to direct, to set up the trials and to get the result they want. Thus, with great audacity, the prosecutor Pappas Spyridon, within an hour, without any substantial arguments and a clear picture, “bagged” most of the accused, assigning to five of them the charge of 187A, that of terrorist organization. A specific name often used by the state and the judiciary to suppress their enemies. In other words, those who chose to oppose social cannibalism, those who chose not to be slaves of the bosses, those who do not accept the few to rule the many, for a life of freedom. Freedom is a basic foundation of life, it is in the nature of human beings, let alone prisoners, to seek it. Thus, on Thursday 10/7, in the Loukareos courts, some of the accused chose the path to freedom, even at the risk of their own lives. Despite the protection measures of the state apparatus and without any scruples about the consequences of this decision, they clashed with the cops, managing to wrest the weapon from one and immobilize a second. However, in their attempt to free the remaining accused, the cops regrouped and the escape attempt ended. They may not have won their freedom this time, but they managed to humiliate the entire security system with its armed cops, sending a strong message of solidarity and the realization that with risk and will, anything can happen. What is written above is not something you would hear or learn from the manipulative media, they know very well how to cover up the mistakes and dirt of their bosses.

PS. Words of great journalistic parrots.

Freedom of speech is a sacred and inviolable right in a democracy.

Source: athens.indymedia

Total mail blockade to anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito persists.” Updates on the detention situation of anarchist Alfredo Cospito and the mail censorship to which he is subjected

Posted on 2025/07/15 - 2025/07/15 by darknights

Total mail blockade to anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito persists.” Updates on the detention situation of anarchist Alfredo Cospito and the mail censorship to which he is subjected (Circolo Anarchico “La Faglia” July 2025)

TOTAL BLOCKADE OF CORRESPONDENCE TO ANARCHIST COMRADE ALFREDO COSPITO PERSISTS.

Update to early July 2025. In these days news arrives again regarding the particularly afflictive situation that the management of the Bancali prison, probably in concert with the Ministry of so-called justice, is imposing on our anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, particularly with regard to epistolary correspondence.

Recall that censorship of incoming and outgoing mail is a constitutive element of the 41 bis regime to which the comrade is subjected. For a long time Alfredo has received no letters, postcards, telegrams or communications of any kind. This is despite the fact that many of us are continuing to write to him, even with collective correspondence initiatives such as the one that took place in Foligno last May 31. In addition, the prison management has long since stopped notifying the prisoner of the notice of censorship, a document against which to appeal in order to receive the epistolary material placed under seizure. The mail simply disappears into thin air.

This behavior is in addition to a long series of persecutory dispositions aimed at the psychological and political destruction of his comrade: from denying him access to books already ordered and authorized, to CDs or headphones to listen to music, to reporting him to the bar association for his defenders guilty of shaking his hand and giving him a kiss at the time of the interview-that is, guilty of treating him as a human being.

All this in an already enormously afflictive context such as that of 41 bis, which provides for two hours of air per day in groups of a maximum of four people decided by the ministry, one hour of interview per month with a family member separated by glass or alternatively ten minutes of phone calls during which the authorized family member must go inside a barracks to call. As well as, as mentioned above, the censorship of correspondence and the inability to read books dealing with subjects deemed sensitive (and the great difficulties in finding any books in general).

We firmly denounce that this doggedness is evidently a state vendetta for the intransigence and determination with which the hunger strike of 2022-23 and the international solidarity mobilization were conducted, putting the spotlight on the shadowy zone that is 41 bis with unprecedented intensity, going to pickaxe that phony celestial aura that surrounds the anti-mafia-anti-terrorism structure.

Moreover, a doggedness that comes in the aftermath of Undersecretary Delmastro’s 8-month sentence for revelations of an official act, which matured precisely in the scoundrel’s attempt to smear Alfredo Cospito during his hunger strike.

The misery of these characters in the face of the consistency of an anarchist who never bowed his head jumps to the eye. On the one hand one who kneecaps a nuclear witch doctor, on the other who on New Year’s Eve high on cocaine in a moment of rare consistency shoots himself in the legs.

In the climate of world warfare these days, we reiterate that these incidents should be read as real policies of war against the enemy within. Great are the challenges that engage revolutionaries in such a historical period, but all the more so we cannot and will not leave anyone behind. For whoever forgets the prisoners of the revolutionary struggle, forgets the revolutionary struggle itself.

In view of the possible renewal of 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito in May next year, let us make sure that this, too, returns to being a battlefield fraught with contradictions for the state.

Circolo Anarchico “La Faglia” – Foligno
July 2025
circoloanarchicolafaglia@inventati.org – t.me/circoloanarchicolafaglia

Source: La Nemesi

Berlin, Germany: Claim for arson attack on Micro Resist Technology company, which specializes in the production of microchips

Posted on 2025/07/15 by darknights

Shutting down the heart of the megamachine – Fire of microchip production

Last night, we set fire to fuse boxes, supply cables and a ventilation system belonging to Micro Resist Technology on the grounds of the Wuhlheide Innovation Park. While Germany is once again unrestrainedly mobilizing for military strength and war capability with a turnaround, special funds and compulsory military service, we are targeting the heart of the technological mega-machine with our sabotage and, with microchip production, are also hitting one of the most sensitive points of civil-military cooperation. This attack is intended as a contribution to the protests against National Veterans Day next Sunday – fire and flame instead of glory and honor for militarism, soldiering and fatherland!

Tiny giants at the intersection of technology and war

The web of capitalist domination is tightening ever tighter around us. Technological progress is the engine that drives the destructive mega-machine and allows it to penetrate ever further into the most intimate areas of our existence. Inanimate objects made of plastic and metal, which, equipped with sensors, microphones, lenses, microchips etc., are increasingly becoming prostheses for social interaction, replacing genuine, empathetic relationships and causing our cognitive abilities to atrophy. At the same time, we are being tracked at every turn by social media, voice assistants, artificial intelligence, “smart” devices, facial recognition and many other surveillance tools, whereby everything we do is being increasingly incorporated into the capitalist value chain. Big data becomes big money. The implementation of such technologies in our everyday lives shapes our existence and the algorithmic calculations derived from them increasingly decide and determine our future. Once we have become accustomed to them, these mechanisms have such an all-encompassing effect that it is almost inconceivable for most people today to escape their digital grasp. For many, even the thought of it triggers anxiety. What remains is an army of slaves to the machine, dependent, controlled, externally determined and not even aware of this relationship.

However, this is only one side of the technological attack. Technology can and should not only manipulate our thoughts and actions, it should also kill. Almost all relevant technologies can be traced back to military research and development in order to gain advantages on the battlefield. Not only against hostile nations, but also in the social war against the exploited, superfluous and precarious of the population. From nuclear power to the internet, from cybernetics to artificial intelligence – our everyday lives are permeated by things that have a military logic at their core. In extreme cases, this can mean that apps that playfully accompany us through the day today feed and train the same machines on the basis of which an AI-controlled drone will determine and destroy its target tomorrow. A practice that is sometimes used by the Israeli military in particular through AI programs such as “Lavender” in their unleashed campaign of destruction against the Palestinian population of Gaza and with the friendly support of their Western accomplices. What seems like an episode from a dystopian science fiction movie is the gruesome reality of technological “achievements”, which are summarized under the term “dual-use” and are inherent in most technologies. Companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, Telekom and Tesla are just some of the best-known players operating at the interface between civil and military applications. Companies that produce highly specialized key technologies such as microchips/semiconductors, without which none of the modern technical devices would work, are far less well known. Smartphones, computers or cars just as little as tanks, guided missiles or war drones. Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: Claim for arson attack on Micro Resist Technology company, which specializes in the production of microchips” →